单词 | in a stew |
释义 | in a stewSEE SYNONYMS FOR in a stew ON THESAURUS.COM Agitated, alarmed, or anxious. For example, Mary was in a stew about how her cake was going to turn out. It is also put as get in or into a stew, as in Every Saturday the minister got in a stew about Sunday's sermon. This expression transfers the mixture of meat and vegetables constituting a stew to overheated mixed emotions. [c. 1800] Words nearby in a stewin a sense, inasmuch as, in a snit, inassimilable, in a state, in a stew, in a tight corner, in a tizzy, inattention, inattentive, in at the death The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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